Collection: Poetry

The Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United States. A regular...

an aunt teaches me how to tellan edible flowerfrom a poisonous one.just in case, I hear her say, just in case.From a co-creator of the...

Tesoro is a story of family, survival, and the formative power of the women in Salgado’s life. It is a telling of the balance between...

  A complete collection―over 300 poems―from one of this country's most influential poets. "These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page." ― Adrienne...

The poems that make up Anodyne consider the small moments that enrapture us alongside the daily threats of cataclysm. Formally dynamic and searingly personal, Anodyne asks us to recognize...

“Punching the Air is the profound sound of humanity in verse. About a boy who uses his creative mind to overcome the creativity of racism. About...

  Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States ** A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book...

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina,...

Winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award: the first and "essential" (Choice) biography of...

  A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers. Self-described...

"There was something powerful in being seen." Taylia Chatterjee has never known love, and certainly has never felt it for herself. Growing up on the...

Sharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular—its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety...

Claudia Rankine's boldly recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming...

  In The Book of Delights, one of today’s most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year....

Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation―Just Us urges all of us into it.As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might...

This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a meditation on the Black female figure through time.Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that...

  Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes...